Portrait of a Young Man

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This appealing portrait of an unknown man with a broad nose and clear gaze, sober in attire and attitude has long been considered one of the most significant and characteristic of the small group of portraits painted by Boltraffio after about 1500 that are notable for their intense naturalism.

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About the Artist

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

1467 – 1516

Italian painter, the the best of Leonardo 's Milanese followers. Most of his works are in Milan, but others are in Berlin, Budapest, Cambridge Mass. (Fogg), Florence (Uffizi), London (National Gallery), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Paris (Louvre and Jacquemart-André) and Philadelphia (Johnson). An interesting portrait by him is at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and another, in Washington (National Gallery of Art), may have been worked on by Leonardo.

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